Product Description

Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery provides a window into glaucoma surgical procedures with rapid insight and ready-to-reference information from more than 50 experienced surgeons in the profession. This resource uses a real-world approach to explain surgical glaucoma, allowing the information to be quickly digested and put to use by the reader.

Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery is led by Dr. Malik Y. Kahook and uses concise and straightforward text to clearly explain surgical procedures, along with pearls of practice to augment the chapters and provide advice from the experts, therefore preparing the reader for the operating room.

This comprehensive handbook offers explanations of surgical instruments, expert FDA information related to current regulation of surgical devices in the United States, and an appendix of surgical dictations.

Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery also includes sections that uniquely add historical context, as well as sections with information on the regulatory environment as it relates to devices used for the surgical management of glaucoma.  Additionally, a section is included that offers perspectives from renowned experts on glaucoma surgery from where it began to where the future will go.

With its real-world approach, user-friendly format, expert advice, and unique point of view, practicing ophthalmologists, residents, fellows, and medical students will benefit from Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery.

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Contents

Dedication

About the Editor

About the Associate Editors

Contributing Authors

Introduction

Section I: Introduction to Basic Concepts of Glaucoma Surgery

Chapter 1: The Surgical Decision-Making Process.

Kathryn L. Pepple, MD, PhD and R. Rand Allingham, MD

Chapter 2: Surgical Anatomy

David Fleischman, MD and John P. Berdahl, MD

Chapter 3: Wound Modulation After Filtration Surgery

Leonard K. Seibold, MD and Malik Y. Kahook, MD

Section II: Trabeculectomy

Chapter 4: Trabeculectomy Surgery: Decision Making and Technique

Marcos Reyes, MD; James A. Fox, MD; and Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD

Chapter 5: Trabeculectomy: Management of Postoperative Complications

Jonathan A. Eisengart, MD

Section III: Glaucoma Drainage Device Implantation

Chapter 6: Preoperative Evaluation for Glaucoma Drainage Device Surgery

Joshua D. Stein, MD, MS

Chapter 7: Types of Glaucoma Drainage Implants

Jeffrey M. Zink, MD

Chapter 8: Standard Technique for Implanting Glaucoma Drainage Devices

Joshua D. Stein, MD, MS

Chapter 9: Location of Glaucoma Drainage Implants and Tubes

Gabriel T. Chong, MD and Richard K. Lee, MD, PhD

Chapter 10: Use of Antimetabolites With Tube Shunt Surgery

Anup K. Khatana, MD

Chapter 11: Considerations on Day of Glaucoma Drainage Implant Surgery

Chapter 12: Postoperative Management of Glaucoma Drainage Implants

Jeffrey M. Zink, MD

Chapter 13: Glaucoma Drainage Devices: Management of Intraoperative and Postoperative Complications

Jonathan A. Eisengart, MD

Section IV: Glaucoma Surgery Combined With Cataract Extraction

Chapter 14: Cataract Surgery and Intraocular Pressure

John P. Berdahl, MD and Thomas W. Samuelson, MD

Chapter 15: Endoscopic Cyclophotocoagulation

Steven R. Sarkisian Jr., MD

Chapter 16: Combined Phacoemulsification and Trabectome

Michael B. Horsley, MD and Douglas J. Rhee, MD

Chapter 17: Glaucoma Filtration Surgery Combined With Cataract Extraction

Matthew Rouse, MD and Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD

Chapter 18: Canaloplasty Combined With Cataract Extraction

Ben J. Harvey, MD and Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD

Chapter 19: Cataract Extraction Plus iStent

John P. Berdahl, MD

Section V: Lasers

Chapter 20: Argon Laser Trabeculoplasty

Elizabeth T. Viriya, MD and Joseph R. Zelefsky, MD

Chapter 21: Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty

Denise A. John, MD, FRCSC and Jennifer Somers Weizer, MD

Chapter 22: Comparison of Argon Laser Trabeculoplasty and Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty

Fiorella Saponara, MD and Joshua D. Stein, MD, MS

Chapter 23: Laser Peripheral Iridotomy

Christopher K. S. Leung, MD

Chapter 24: Argon Laser Peripheral Iridoplasty

Clement C. Y. Tham, FRCS(Glasgow), FCOphth(HK); Dennis S. C. Lam, MD(HK), FRCS(Edin), FRCOphth(UK),
FCOphth(HK); and Robert Ritch, MD

Chapter 25: Transscleral Cyclophotocoagulation

Douglas E. Gaasterland, MD

Chapter 26: Endocyclophotocoagulation

Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD and Malik Y. Kahook, MD

Section VI: Less Common Surgeries

Chapter 27: Surgical Iridectomy

Stephen P. Verb, MD, MHSA and Nauman Imami, MD, MHSA

Chapter 28: Repair of Cyclodialysis Clefts

Amy Badger-Asaravala, MD and Robert Stamper, MD

Chapter 29: Drainage of Choroidal Effusions

Leon W. Herndon, MD

Chapter 30: Angle Surgery: Goniotomy and Trabeculotomy

Danielle M. Ledoux, MD; Suzanne Johnston, MD; and David S. Walton, MD

Section VII: Surgical Management of Complicated Glaucomas

Chapter 31: Surgical Management of Neovascular Glaucoma

Jonathan A. Eisengart, MD

Chapter 32: Surgical Management of Uveitic Glaucoma

Jonathan A. Eisengart, MD

Chapter 33: Glaucoma Surgery in the Nanophthalmic Eye

Tiffany N. Szymarek, MD; Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD; and Jonathan A. Eisengart, MD

Chapter 34: Glaucoma Surgery in Aniridia Patients

Jeffrey M. Zink, MD

Chapter 35: Glaucoma Surgery in Corneal Transplant Patients

Preeya K. Gupta, MD and John P. Berdahl, MD

Chapter 36: Glaucoma Surgery in the Keratoprosthesis Patient

Jeffrey M. Zink, MD

Chapter 37: Concomitant Glaucoma Drainage Devices and Corneal Transplantation

Preeya K. Gupta, MD and John P. Berdahl, MD

Chapter 38: Glaucoma Drainage Device Implantation Combined With Pars Plana Vitrectomy

Jonathan A. Eisengart, MD

Section VIII: Novel Approaches

Chapter 39: Ex-Press Glaucoma Filtration Device

Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD and Malik Y. Kahook, MD

Chapter 40: Canaloplasty

Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD

Chapter 41: Trabectome

Mina Pantcheva, MD and Malik Y. Kahook, MD

Chapter 42: Suprachoroidal Devices

Sarwat Salim, MD, FACS

Section IX: Surgical Trials and Regulatory Insights

Chapter 43: Review of Glaucoma Surgery Clinical Trials

Travis C. Rumery, DO; David C. Musch, PhD, MPH; and Joshua D. Stein, MD, MS

Chapter 44: United States Food and Drug Administration Regulation of Ophthalmic Devices

R. Lee Kramm, MSE, MD and Malvina B. Eydelman, MD

Chapter 45: Glaucoma Surgery in Resource-Poor Settings

Nathan Congdon, MD, MPH

Section X: Perspectives on Surgery from the Experts

Chapter 46: Are You Still Withholding the “Trabeculectomy Cure?”

David L. Epstein, MD, MMM

Chapter 47: Glaucoma Surgical Innovation Nearing the Tipping Point

Thomas W. Samuelson, MD

Chapter 48: Glaucoma Surgery: A Paradox

Richard A. Lewis, MD

Chapter 49: Future of Glaucoma

Ayyala Ramesh

Chapter 50: Glaucoma Surgery: Where We Started and Where We Are Going

Marlene R. Moster, MD

Chapter 51: Progress in Surgery for Glaucoma

Robert D. Fechtner, MD

Chapter 52: Looking at Glaucoma Surgery

Joel S. Schuman, MD, FACS

Appendix A: Surgical Supplies, Instruments, and Implants for the Operating Room

Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD

Appendix B: Diagnostic and Procedural Codes for Glaucoma and Glaucoma Surgery

Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD

Appendix C: Informed Consent in Glaucoma Surgery

Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD

Appendix D: Surgical Dictation Examples

Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD and Anna-Maria Demetriades, MD

Appendix E: Commonly Used Laser Settings

Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD

Financial Disclosures

Index

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Reviews

"This is a high quality book that meets the standard expected by ophthalmologists for an informative book. Overall, it is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any glaucoma specialist."

            -Sriranjani P. Padmanabhan, MD, Doody's Book Review Service

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About the Editor

Malik Y. Kahook, MD is Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Clinical and Translational Research in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Colorado. He also directs the glaucoma service and glaucoma fellowship, and serves as a faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado. He specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of glaucoma and cataracts. He is active within the ophthalmology community including memberships in the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Glaucoma Society, American Society of Refractive and Cataract Surgeons, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Dr. Kahook has authored more than 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters, and is editor of Chandler and Grant’s Glaucoma. He was awarded an American Glaucoma Society Clinician-Scientist Fellowship Award for 2007 as well as the American Glaucoma Society Compliance Grant for 2006 and was named New Inventor of the Year for the University of Colorado in 2009 and Inventor of the Year for 2010. He has filed for 12 patents, several of which have been licensed by companies for development and commercial- ization. Dr. Kahook is a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration’s Ophthalmic Device Division.
Dr. Kahook completed his residency training at the University of Col- orado, Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute in Denver, Colorado, where he was named Chief Resident. He then went on to complete his fellowship in glaucoma from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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